THE recent outbreak of war between Israel and Iran is not just another geopolitical conflict — it is a painful eruption of an ...

According to Greek legend, a prince named Memnon led an army from ancient Iran to Troy and fought in the Trojan War.

The Middle East is a region of intense beauty and ancient kingdoms. It has also repeatedly endured periods of geopolitical ...

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will not ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered three New Kingdom tombs dating to more than ... which is near modern-day Luxor (ancient Thebes). The three deceased individuals, all men, each held ...

Analysis of over 1,000 ancient Hebrew personal names using ecological diversity statistics shows that the Kingdom of Israel had significantly higher name diversity than Judah, reflecting a more ...

An Iranian woman jumps over a bonfire celebrating Chaharshanbe Souri, or Wednesday Feast, an ancient Festival of Fire on the eve of the last Wednesday of the Persian year, in Tehran, Iran ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — I’ve worked for The Associated Press as a photographer since 1999. A lot of what I cover involves either Iran’s government or its relations with the West, but I also try ...

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